Make the cervical screening option available from 18 to high risk groups

Make the cervical screening option available from 18 to high risk groups

Started
9 January 2017
Petition to
Jeremy Hunt (Secretary of State for Health) and
Signatures: 384,154Next Goal: 500,000
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Started by Keeley McCormick

The current age for cervical cancer screening in England is 25. If you are under 25 you aren't allowed to have a screening due to the NHS guidelines, some Gps will send women under 25 for a smear if they have certain symptoms yet some won't. This is why #Amberslaw needs to come in place. This means there would be a guideline through the NHS which allows ALL gps in any area of the U.K. To send people for smears under 25 if they have symptoms which are classed as alarming or high risk. 

Ambers Law

Any woman under the age of 25 who is not eligible for cervical cancer screening who goes to the doctors with any kind of problems in their lower half on 2 occasions will have the OPTION to have screening.

Amber went to the doctors multiple (I'm talking over 10 at least) times over the course of a few years and was constantly told 'it's your hormones' 'it's a water infection' 'it's your pill' and when she asked for a screening they said no she was too young. We paid for her to get one private at the age of 21 and found she had cervical cancer that had been there for 2-4 years already. This over the course of 4 years spread to her lungs and her throat. Amber died at the age of 25, we lost a sister, daughter, grand daughter and an amazing friend to cancer because she was failed by the people who were meant to provide her care.

How would you feel if it was your sister or daughter? If you know deep down they could of been saved and still here today if they had the option for a screening at any age?

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#Amberslaw

There has been a couple of petitions been archived with no valid reason. Why not just lower the age? Why cant you help save young women? 

 

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Decision-Makers

  • Jeremy HuntSecretary of State for Health
  • Jeremy huntSecetary of state for health